Recent work highlights

• Acting for a UK-based wife in her successful application to top up her financial award following matrimonial proceedings in France on the basis that she should not have had to use her French divorce award for unpaid child maintenance.
• Representing an EU national living in England during his application to stay his wife's financial application here to allow a divorce to progress in their home country, which he considered to be the more appropriate jurisdiction. The matter was settled out of court shortly before the hearing.
• Acting for a father in relation to arrangements for his two young children, moving over the lengthy period of representation from the mother's starting position of no time spent overnight with the client to a shared care position.
• Representing a mother seeking to relocate to the UK from the UAE. Her move was subsequently agreed by the father of her children and endorsed by the court.
• Representing a husband in financial remedy proceedings where the interpretation of a prenuptial agreement was contested.